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Forcing Lion Finder to open in List View?

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Mar 15, 202620980 views
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One of my favorite features in Snow Leopard was the fact that Finder would always open a new window in the "List View". Lion instead opens the multi-column view by default. Is there any way I can make the Finder window open in "List View" by default?

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I remember doing this before on SL. I haven't tested this yet on Lion. First, recursively delete all .DS_Store files. These files contains per-folder settings. According to this guide from Adobe: Select Applications > Utilities to launch Terminal. E…

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